Improvement in ice-creepers



PATENT rFIo HERBERT H. WHITE, OF LEQMINSTER, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN lCE-CREEPERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 131,836, dated October1, 1872.

To allwhom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HERBERT H. WHITE, of Leominster, in the county ofWorcester and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and usefulIce-Creeper, and I do hereby declare that the following specification,takenin connection with the drawing making apart of the same, is a full,clear, and exact description thereof. I

Figure 1 is a side view. Fig. 2 is a vertical section. Fig. 3 is a viewof the plate.

The object ofmy invention is to produce an ice-creeper which shall becheap, durable, and

easy of adjustment 5 and consists of the de' vice hereinafter described.

Many of the creepers now in use are subject to several objections, amongwhich are difficulty of adjustment, liability to get loos'e-thusproducing a clicking sound, and their unpleasant appearance whenattached to the boot.

In my invention I make the creeper A, Fig. 1, of rubber, and of suchshape that it will receive the heel of the boot, while the strap B,

which .is also of rubber, passes over the instep and holds it firmly inplace. The bottom of the creeper is made by placing between twothicknesses of rubber a perforated metal plate, O, as shown in Fig. 3,having several spurs which project through the outer covering and andcatch in the ice. During the process of manufacture the perforations inthe plate 0 becomefilled with rubber, and the upper'and under coveringof the plate thus firmly united, forming a solid piece. The elasticityof the strap permits the device to be easily adjusted,

but at the same time holds it securely in place. What I claim as myinvention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is- The combinationof the metal plate (3, constructed as described,-with the rubberheelcalk A, when the former is embedded in the a latter during theprocess of vulcanization, substantially as and for the purposespecified.

HERBERT H. WHITE.

Witnesses J AEEs BENNETT, D. ANN BENNETT.

